Tag: .htaccess

Any good web host will secure the contents of website directories which don’t have an index page by not allowing the files or folders to be listed, instead you’ll get a 403 error page saying access is forbidden. Whilst this is good in practice, sometimes you might actually need to list the contents – and its simple to enable on an Apache web server – add one line to your .htaccess file and you’re done!

How it’s done

Options +Indexes

Notes

If you have access you can edit your web server configuration and make it global